90: Jonathan Haidt | The Danger of Good Intentions and Safe Spaces
Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) is a social psychologist who studies the American culture wars and is widely considered to be one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of morality. He is the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.
What We Discuss with Jonathan Haidt:
- Why should we be preparing the child for the road and not the road for the child?
- How the concepts of safe spaces and trigger warnings are making our society less safe and less prepared for the real world.
- What we should be doing instead to prepare ourselves and our kids for reality.
- Cognitive distortions and how we become victims of our own flawed mindsets.
- The three fundamental untruths being perpetuated by academia and the media and how we can fight these influences.
- And much more...
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